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Manual DHCP configuration in Slackware 10

Hey all u Nix gods/godesses ,

(noob to this forum)

I have been working on sum practice Network admin tasks in Nix but have come to a grinding halt on this one.

I am seemingly unable to 'hack' the dhcp config file to a use configuration for only my machine soon to be 2 more. Although after countless guesses based on the man page template and ip addressing knowledge I already posses (very little) plus zillions of searches on google, I thought I might pray to the Nix gods/esses and hope for an answer .

I am pretty much half way to Nix veterancy IMHO others may say otherwise.

I want to to the same kind of things, and I know you can easily do it by editing the /etc/dhcpd.conf as you said
But I'd like to do it without using the mac address. I know it is possible to do it by using a USB key on each client, but I don't really know how to do it so.
My problem is that I'm gonna have to change the clients' (the computers) so the mac address will be different and I don't want to have to get to the dhcpd.conf file after the installation.

Thanks guys and gals I did it

You'll make a nix god out of me yet .
After much sleep deprivation I finally did it by using one of the samples in the help pdfs of a samba tar ball. All is good now but...

I go to check my mail after dialing the internet and I find that sylpheed claws (and probably anything else I could of used) was attempting to connect to the bt openworld mail server through my newly configured dhcp server.

I didnt even set it up as a gateway. Surely there's a hack to get round this. I dont have ADSL yet I need ppp0 to be used right now.
For now I am set to local loopback.